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&quot;Beardless Jihad&quot; in Ukraine.

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Five Chechen's linked with the French based exile Chechen Emirate organistaion have
been arrested in France for posetion of fire arms and explosives. They have
been suspected by police of planning to launch a terroroist attack and of suppling
weapons the recent Charlie Hebo attack. The weapons are believed to have
orginated from Chechens fighting in Ukraine's Volunteer Battalions and to have
been smuggled across the Polish border with Chechen fighters returned back to
their homes in France.

The reports came as the French prime minister asked his
nation to do some soul-searching about the country's deep ethnic divisions and
declared that fighting hatred, anti-Semitism and racism was an urgent priority,
especially in France's impoverished housing projects.

Beziers Mayor Robert Menard confirmed the arrests Tuesday in Beziers and
Montpellier of five men of Chechen origin and said the man arrested in Beziers
had been a resident &quot;for some time.&quot;&lt;br style=&quot;mso-special-character:
line-break&quot;&gt;

Midi Libre, the local paper, said an explosives cache was
found in Beziers near a stadium but prosecutor Yvon Calvet told Midi Libre it
wasn't immediately clear whether a terror attack was planned.

Prosecutors planned a news conference later Tuesday.

France has been on high alert since three days of terror in the Paris region
left 20 people dead, including the three gunmen, earlier this month.

The Paris prosecutor's office said the four men in court Tuesday were suspected
of providing logistical support to Amedy Coulibaly, one of the dead terrorists.

Coulibaly shot a policewoman to death on the outskirts of Paris and then seized
hostages inside a kosher supermarket, killing four before he was killed by
police. It is not clear whether the four suspects, all in their 20s, were
involved in plotting the attacks or even aware of Coulibaly's plans.

The Paris prosecutor's office said five others arrested in the investigation
were released without charge.

No one has been charged for direct involvement in the Jan. 7-9 terror attacks.
Coulibaly claimed allegiance to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria group while
the two brothers who attacked the Charlie Hebdo newspaper said they were backed
by al-Qaeda in Yemen.